Overland takes home design award

The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Wing at the San Antonio Museum of Art, which opened in 2005, was designed by Overland Partners Architects. The Texas Society of Architects has given Overland a 2009 Design Award for the project.

A design that uses filtered natural light to illuminate art on display in the San Antonio Museum of Art has garnered a state award for a San Antonio architecture firm.

Overland Partners Architects has won a 2009 Design Award from the Texas Society of Architects for its design of the museum’s Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Wing, the company announced.

Construction of the 15,000-square-foot, two-story addition wrapped up in 2005. Translucent and transparent glazing systems based on Asian Shoji screens protect the wing’s 1,500 pieces of art from ultraviolet rays, according to Overland.

It was among 12 of more than 260 projects entered to receive a 2009 Design Award.

Other team members for the Asian Art Wing project included Browning Construction Company as the general contractor, Lundy & Franke Engineering Inc. as the structural engineer, Goetting and Associates as the MEP engineer, Bos Lighting Design as the lighting consultant and Cliff LaFontaine as the exhibit consultant.